Payscout Co-Founder & CEO Cleveland Brown

In this episode of the CEO Podcast, we sit down with Cleveland Brown, the co-founder and CEO of PayScout. Cleveland shares his fascinating journey from building a communication platform for public schools to leading a global payment processing technology company. Discover how PayScout transforms payment processing from a cost center to a profit center using their proprietary payment orchestration platform and AI-driven tools. Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 00:16 - Cleveland's journey to becoming CEO of PayScout 00:50 - What is PayScout? 01:20 - Cleveland's excitement about payments 02:25 - Transition from communication platform to payment processing 03:04 - Studying philosophy and its impact 04:07 - First experience with Nietzsche 04:54 - Importance of company culture 06:19 - Mentorship at PayScout 07:09 - AI in payments and its future 09:25 - Crypto and its impact on payments 11:08 - Using AI for fraud detection 13:21 - Cleveland's reading recommendations 15:34 - Thoughts on raising capital 16:20 - Leaders Cleveland admires 17:11 - Outlook for 2025 19:17 - Cleveland's name and family legacy 20:23 - The importance of taking chances